December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: eligable receiver
by CJ Parker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: David Honig <honig(a)alum.mit.edu> THE WASHINGTON TIMES Computer hackers could disable military; System compromised in secret exercise So when can we expect to hear the first announcements of high-level military resignations over the disgraceful state that they have let our national security fall into while wasting billions of dollars of our money? Please zipfile the announcements forwarded to the list, so that their massive volume does not swamp all of our email accounts. cjp ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: GSM cellphones cloned---Threats?
by Dave Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 05:50:36AM +1000, Marc Briceno wrote: > > Several radio enineers I talked with speculated that it /might/ even be > possible to modify a standard GSM phone to act as a rouge "key reaper" > base station. I am not a radio engineer and have no way to verify this > claim. The modifications would be fairly major and rather difficult on a surface mount high density low cost phone PC board. A lot of the stuff required is in ASICs in a typical phone, and they are not in general easily adapted to playing a different role even if the full design database and phone schematics are available to the hacker which it would not be. On the other hand, some of the components of a standard GSM phone could be used to fill a number of functions in such an animal, and a couple of partially stripped GSM phone PC cards would certainly be useful as part of such. I would see such a probe base station as a briefcase size object run by a laptop or powerful palmtop spliced into two or three hacked up phone PC cards with some added signal processing logic in a FPGA or two (and maybe an added RF modem chip as well). Of course some older phone designs might be less ASIC intensive and more adaptable, although the 1.9 ghz PCS US versions are mostly pretty recent. And there may be some universal multi-standard brand that is much more software configured than others and might be an easier jumping off place - I certainly have not investigated this at all (nor do I expect to). On another topic - privacy... Your break suggests that A3/A8 may have been deliberately weakened to allow such SIM probing. Intelligence agencies are not in general interested in cloning, but for those without access to whatever magic hardware (or software) exists for cracking A5/1 at low cost in real time, the ability to once recover the SIM secret allows easy listening to all subsequent calls from that phone (or SIM) with no required cracking hardware time or access. And this is very valuable in lots of situations, such as covert operations out of hotels in foreign places where having highly classified A5 cracking boxes in tow would be a significant security risk. And for countries with GSM phone systems interested in spying on visiting diplomats, heads of state, or trade delegations who are using their GSM phones in a roaming mode and depending on the fact the GSM home switching office does not disclose their long term secret, such probing can be quietly concealed in the real traffic of a legitimate base station. The secrets recovered can then be used to crack traffic back in the visitor's home country where he may be trusting his local system to be secure. And the ability to probe the phones of visiting dignitaries from nearby hotel rooms and recover their secrets must be awfully useful to many even third rate intelligence operations - this allows listening to all their subsequent traffic without requiring an A5/1 cracking capability at all - let alone one that works real time from low cost portable units. And even if there is some sanity test in GSM phone firmware that would catch or prevent enough probes to crack the SIM secret, your physical access method allows black bag jobs to recover the SIM secret of phones left poorly guarded for a few hours. This alone is very obviously of great use to intelligence types (at least unless there is some hardware backdoor in the SIM to allow the readout in seconds rather than hours). -- Dave Emery N1PRE, die(a)die.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

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woah
by ArtNoire 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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DataFellows wins President's Export Award
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It's nice that _some_ presidents give awards for crypto export instead of trying to stop it! ------------------------------------ http://www.datafellows.com/news/finexpo.htm 4 February 1998 The developer of F-Secure data security products, Data Fellows Ltd., has received the President of Finlands Export Award. This award is granted annually to the most outstanding export companies in the country. This is the first time a developer of commercial software packages has been granted the award. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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EC
by Tyrone W. Grandison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone know where I can find a compilation of E-Commerce attacks ? Any sites on conpromising EC would be a plus ..

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17 Dec '03

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Prologue 18 - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by CJ Parker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Prologue 18 - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS !!! "Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century." ~ J.G. Ballard ~ Hidden Empire: Peter Jennings, Canadian Circle of Eunuchs Journalist, recently pointed out, on 'World News Tonight,' that the "rewards" of "labor saving" modern technology seem to be mysteriously "missing." Jennings pointed out that the normal American working family now has 'two' individuals working a '47-hour week.' Interestingly, Jennings managed to work into the story an example of the $3 Billion that the US government has laying around to invest in digging vast expanses of underground tunnels, etc., in New Mexico, for the purported purpose of (unsuccessfully) seeking out a suitable place to deposit nuclear waste. (He made no direct reference to Underground Reptilian Nazis.) In the same evening news program, the CoE initiate aired a report containing a subliminal InfoWar reminder to US citizens as to their true role in the government's scheme of things, with a parody of the primitive primary products of Peristroika-TAXES, TAX PROMOTION and TAX ENFORCEMENT. It described the implementation of the new (to Russia) income tax system, and showed promotional advertisements on the Pavlovian Broadcasting System (PBS) meant to ingrain in the minds of the citizens the officially correct way to view their new friend, Mr. Tax. "Depressed? Pay your taxes, and you'll feel better." "No appetite? Pay your taxes, and you'll feel better." And, for the benefit of those who still know a poisoned Carrot when they see one, Russian PBS also carries promotional advertisements that blatantly and unashamedly trumpet the dark, underlying theme of Tax Agencies around the world, and which American taxpayers can easily recognize from their own experience: "THE TAX ENFORCERS HAVE GUNS, AND THEY KNOW HOW TO USE THEM." (Accompanied by live footage of armed thugs in camouflage subduing and kicking the crap out of scumbag tax resisters.) Isn't it funny how Life imitates Real Life (tm)? Maybe It's Under The Bed: So where, exactly, are the mountains of cash resulting from the much ballyhoo'ed Benefits of Modern Technology (tm)? In an age where it takes two individuals, working harder and longer than the former solitary 'bread earner,' to struggle (and fail) to maintain the same standard of living and future security that existed at a time when the infrastructures around them were undergoing building and expansion, as opposed to their current fall into decay, where are the "missing" benefits of technology disappearing to? Question: "Where did the 'money go' that was earned by the workers in the proverbial Company Town (tm)?" Answer: "Where it *always* goes...into deep pockets of the Empire...in this case, the Company Empire and the pockets of the company owner." Major Question: "Could it possibly be that the Benefits of Modern Technology are being surreptitiously slipped into the pockets of a Hidden Empire (tm), which serves as an invisible version of a Global Company Town?" Major Answer: "Those who do not learn from the past, are doomed to repeat it..." How I Would Build A Hidden Empire: (by Human Gus-Peter) [Disclaimer: I am just a kid with an overactive imagination, but...] If I wanted to steal all of the financial benefits of modern technology, I would take advantage of all the things I learned subliminally by ignoring the official version of history that my teachers were promoting while concentrating my conscious attention on making my spitballs stick to the ceiling and impressing the cute girl sitting behind me. I would first have my secret agent guys become the bosses of the people who sell Geritol and make fun of their husband's Cuban accent on TV. I would have them begin selling The Way Things Are (tm) by controlling the entertainment and news that people got to see. People have always resigned themselves to TWTA. It used to be Kings who held their attention with swords and Priests who held their attention with hellfire, but now it is TV that holds their attention with Pavlovian hypnosis. Next, I would have my secret guys begin putting the financial benefits of modern technology into the pockets of those who were a part of my Hidden Empire, since people can't miss what they never have. I would make sure that my people controlled the money supply and could let people mostly maintain their standard of living, even while raising their taxes and creating all sorts of BlackHoles for new money to disappear down, such as bloated Defense budgets and social programs where it could be funneled into the pockets of my Hidden Empire. When the taxes, regulatory fees, licensing fees, interest charges, users fees, and the mountain of other money sources I was able to make The Way Things Are had grown so large that people started recognizing the resemblance to Company Town, Indentured Slavery, and the like, then I would begin making things so that they would receive fewer services and less benefit for the same amount of work. I would do it slowly, so that more people working longer hours for slowly declining services and benefits would gradually and constantly become the new, improved Way Things Are. I would make sure that those making the laws and those engaged in business benefited greatly from supporting the aims and maintenance of my Hidden Empire, and suffered greatly if they opposed or resisted it in any way. I would use my power to control The Way Things Are to direct anger, resentment and resistance of the people toward the government and corporate symbols schills of my Hidden Empire, and keep them from revolting against The Way Things Are by giving them the illusion of being able to control and change The Way Things Are by voting and making consumer decisions. I would let them rearrange the pawns on my playing board while keeping The Game (tm) moving at a confusing enough pace so that they would hardly notice that the major pieces on my board always remain the same, no matter how they vote, or what illusory decisions they make in their role as consumers. Most importantly, I would cement the hold of my Hidden Empire on their lives by not only controlling the information that was fed to the masses, but also gaining access and controlling all of the information that they fed to my shills, and to each other. I would cause them to receive a mark in their right hand, or their forehead, which would identify them when they worked, banked, got a drivers license, bought dog food with their discount card at the supermarket. I would put in place an extensive surveillance network that could monitor their movements when they ate at a fast food restaurant, used a long-distance cash card, rented a Ryder truck, parked near a federal building, traveled without a license plate on their vehicle. (And if they ordered a Kentucky Fried Chicken 'snack pak' for their final meal, I would make sure it was delivered with an 'extra leg.'-hee, hee) I would make certain that the minions of my Hidden Empire could intercept and monitor all forms of communication on a global basis, and provide me with the information I needed to make, break and manipulate every individual, group, company and government on the face of the earth. I would call one part of this operation 'Echelon' and another part of it 'Octopuss.' Lastly, I would use my power to monitor and control all communications to increase the range and power of my Hidden Empire by keeping a sufficient number of people just comfortable and secure enough to express approval of The Way Things Are (tm) in polls designed to find out how much more I can steal from them for the coffers of my Hidden Empire (tm) without mounting a revolution. As long as my shills could use their power to sexually assault women in the highest of government offices, financially ruin corporations to steal their software, murder men, women, children and goat-herders at will, without the average person risking their comfort and security by attempting to make serious changes in The Way Things Are, then I would continue to have my shills slowly eat away all of their rights, freedoms and their liberty in every area of their life, all across the face of the earth, until I succeeded in creating a Global The Way Things Are that would finally become resigned to their subjugation that I would no longer have to hide my Empire, and could openly give it an official name. I kind of like "New World Order..." Quit Being Silly: [Note from the Editor: Believe it or not, Human Gus-Peter wrote the above without having read any of the following (and he's just a kid...):] To: e$(a)vmeng.com From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: e$: Tet in Cypherspace Actually, LBJ would have caused stagflation doing that "we owe it to ourselves" stuff anyway, but it's a nice pipe dream. Nonetheless, money is always much more important than "policy". In spite of the most bloodthirsty actions of the most totalitarian statist -- say, the late Pol Pot -- it's money that creates law, and not the other way around. This presidency, more than any other in the history of this nation -- a nation where political corruption has been celebrated as fine art -- understands this simple fact as a natural course of doing its lucretive business. And the irony that the most socialist president in American history is also the most attuned to income has never been lost on the people he's trying to tax and regulate out of business. However, Freidrich Hayek has been proven right once again where the Clintons have been concerned, though it's hard to figure out sometimes if Billary are outright totalitarians themselves or just Hayak's "useful idiots" in the now-dead cause of socialism. Fortunately, like any good parasites, Billary can't kill their host, as this latest "spinglage" on cryptography seems to show. That need for a market "host" for socialism to suck blood from, in the end, is what has saved our freedom again. Subject: fincen propaganda From: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri(a)netcom.com> To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net ------- Forwarded Message From: "Mark A. Smith" <msmith01(a)flash.net> > FinCEN: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network > http://TeamInfinity.com/~ralph/FinCEN.html > > Big Brother Wants to Look Into Your Bank Account (Any Time It Pleases) > > The US government is constructing a system to track all financial > transactions in real-time - ostensibly to catch drug traffickers, > terrorists, and financial criminals. Does that leave you with the warm > fuzzies - or scare you out of your wits? > By Anthony L. Kimery > Launched with a low-key champagne reception at the Treasury Department in > April 1990, FinCEN is the US government's (perhaps the world's) most > effective financial crime investigation unit. Even Russian President Boris > Yeltsin asked for its help in locating stolen Communist Party funds. This > state-of-the-art computer-snooping agency is quietly tucked away under the > auspices of the Treasury Department. Its mission is to map the digital > trails of dirty money, be it the laundered profits from drug sales, stolen > S&L loot, hidden political slush funds, or the financing conduits of > terrorists. It's the only federal unit devoted solely to the systematic > collation and cross-analysis of law enforcement, intelligence, and public databases. > Inside FinCEN's new digs on the second floor of a gleaming high-rise office > building down the road from the CIA in Vienna, Virginia (otherwise known as > "Spook City"), the talents of the IRS, FBI, DEA, Secret Service, and other > traditional federal cops such as customs agents and postal inspectors are > pooled. According to senior intelligence officers, these investigative units > can access the resources of the CIA, the National Security Agency (which > intercepts data on electronic currency movements into and out of the United > States, some of which make their way into FinCEN's analyses), and the > Defense Intelligence Agency. > Bruh and other FinCEN officials openly acknowledge their association with > the CIA, but they refuse to discuss further any aspect of FinCEN's dealings > with it or any other intelligence agency. In addition to the CIA, > intelligence officials have admitted, off the record, that the National > Security Council and the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and > Research (INR) have also joined FinCEN's impressive intelligence crew. In > short, FinCEN is a one-of-a-kind cauldron containing all the available > financial intelligence in the United States. > > "It's the first ever government-wide, multi-source intelligence and > analytical network brought together under one roof to combat financial > crimes," said Peter Djinis, director of the Treasury Department's Office of > Financial Enforcement and one of the few Treasury officials close to FinCEN > activities. > As routine as such assignments as this case may be, the chumminess between > FinCEN and the intelligence community raises serious questions about the > privacy and security of the financial records of citizens John and Jane Doe, > considering the intelligence community's historic penchant for illegal > spying on non-criminals. Given the vast reach and ease with which the > government can now tap into an individual's or business's financial records > on a whim, these questions have received far too little scrutiny. > But FinCEN has a hush-hush US$2.4 million contract with the US Department of > Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop what Bruh and other > FinCEN officials de-scribed as a powerful "money flow model." Unlike > FinCEN's current system, Los Alamos's AI software will look for unexplained, > atypical money flows. Coupled with a massively parallel computer system, the > AI/MPP could perform real-time monitoring of the entire US electronic > banking landscape. > In the near future, all of these government databases will be interfaced by > way of AI/ MPP technology. "MPP is critical to FinCEN's ability to analyze > (banking) data to its full capacity," Bruh insists. > > The pure power of such a "database of databases" terrifies critics. Though > FinCEN and other authorities discount the potential for abuse, tell that to > the CIA. Its charter forbids it from engaging in domestic surveillance; > nonetheless, it spied on Americans for seven consecutive presidential > administrations (it says it finally ceased its internal spying in the mid- > 1970s). > "The risk of the CIA getting its hands on this is serious - we know the kind > of unscrupulous people who populate the spook world," said a Washington-area > private investigator who conducts many legitimate financial investigations > for a CIA-linked firm. "This kind of financial data, when coupled with other > information like a person's credit history, could be used for blackmail, > bribery, and extortion," said the investigator, who has a military > intelligence background. > > Bruce Hemmings is a veteran CIA clandestine-services officer who retired in > 1989. Prior to the DTS proposal, he told Wired that the CIA routinely digs > for financial dirt on people from whom the agency wants specific > information. > DTS could present an inviting mechanism for quieting unwanted dissent or for > defanging an unruly congressional leader bent on exposing some questionable > CIA operation. Although still in its embryonic stage and in spite of the > looming privacy obstacle it will inevitably confront, FinCEN is seen by many > in the government as the catalyst for a powerful, all- seeing, all-knowing, > global, financial-tracking organization. In fact, FinCEN is al-ready working > closely with INTERPOL, and Bruh's deputy just resigned to head up INTERPOL's > US office. Want To See Something REALLY Scary? [Editors Note: Unfortunately the following is NOT fiction.] > Seated at a computer terminal inside FinCEN's former command post, a FinCEN > analyst began the hunt. He started by querying a database of business phone > numbers. He scored a hit with the number of a local restaurant. Next he > entered the Currency and Banking Database (CBDB), an IRS database accessed > through the Currency and Banking Retrieval System. CBDB contains roughly 50 > million Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs), which document all financial > transactions of more than US$10,000. By law these transactions must be filed > by banks, S&Ls, credit unions, securities brokers, casinos, and other > individuals and businesses engaged in the exchange of large sums of money. > > The analyst narrowed his quest by searching for CTRs filed for transactions > deemed "suspicious." Financial institutions must still file a CTR, or IRS > Form 4789, if a transaction under US$10,000 is considered suspicious under > the terms of an extensive federal government list. There was a hit. A series > of "suspicious" CTRs existed in the restaurant's ZIP code. Punching up > images of the identified CTRs on his terminal, the FinCEN analyst noted that > the transactions were made by a person whose first name was John. The CTRs > were suspicious all right; they were submitted for a series of transactions > each in the amount of US$9,500, just below the CTR threshold of US$10,000. > This was hard evidence that John structured the deposits to avoid filinga > Form 4789, and that is a federal crime. > > Selecting one of the CTRs for "an expanded review," the analyst got John's > full name, Social Security number, date of birth, home address, driver > license number, and other vital statistics, including bank account numbers. > > Plunging back into the IRS database, the analyst broadened his search for > all CTRs filed on behalf of the suspect, including non-suspicious CTRs. Only > 20 reports deemed suspicious popped up on the screen, but more than 150 CTRs > [brought to you by:ralph@TeamInfinity.com http://TeamInfinity.com/urls.html] > were filed in all. A review of the non-suspicious ones revealed that on > several, John listed his occupation as the owner or manager of the > restaurant identified by the telephone number on the slip of paper taken > from the arrested drug dealer. The connection between the name and the phone > number originally given to FinCEN was secured. > > The FinCEN analyst then tapped commercial and government databases, and > turned up business information on the restaurant showing that John had > reported an expected annual revenue for his eatery of substantially less > than the money he had been depositing, as indicated by the CTRs. Fishing in > a database of local tax assessment records, the analyst discovered that John > owned other properties and businesses. With the names of these other > companies, the analyst went back into the CTR database and found that > suspicious transaction reports were filed on several of them as well. "When all you have is a gigantic schlong , everything looks like a citizen." ~ Human Gus-Peter ~

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Quebecois: CSE not spying on you (NSA does that, we trade..)
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Full story at http://www2.thestar.com/thestar/back_issues/ED19980406/news/980406NEW01d_NA- SPY6.html OTTAWA - Canada's ultra-secret spy agency is not eavesdropping on the private conversations of Canadian citizens, Quebec's former chief justice says. <P> For the past 20 months, Claude Bisson has scrupulously monitored the activities of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), a half-century-old agency that operates so clandestinely its very existence was not even publicly acknowledged until 1983. <P> ``My mandate is to assure that the CSE is abiding by the Constitution and after 20 months I can assert it is abiding by the law,'' Bisson, commissioner of the CSE, said during his first interview since taking on the task of reviewing the agency's activities in June, 1996. <P> ``There is no targeting of Canadians in general and Quebecers in particular. I am satisfied and I can assure the Canadian people that CSE abides by the law.'' ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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CoE/AoD Notice! / [Fwd: A.Word.A.Day--cabal]
by Bubba ROM DOS 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Due to the recent murder of the L.M. Boyd sampler by the Dark Forces, future confirmations of the existence of an InterNet-wide network of secret Circle of Eunuchs initiates will be in the capable hands of the Word.A.Day website. In keeping with a long-standing tradition, and in order not to fry the mental brain-neuron circuits of those who are not imbibing enough nectar of the drunken SODs to run 220V through a 110V circuit without doing irrepairable harm to the MeatSpace manifestation of their Eternity SoulServer, the timing of the confirmations will continue to be of a nature that those without the ability to mathematically calculate time-zones, as well as those who need to suspect subterfuge on the part of those disseminating the manuscripts of 'The True Story of the InterNet' *after* receiving the Word.A.Day emails, will be able to ease the excessive resistance their mind has to the flow of the Tao by constructing within their minds a conspiracy theory in this regard that puts the conspiracy theories contained in the mad ramblings of the Author to shame. e.g. - Although, on the surface (and far below the surface, perhaps reaching to the core of the Earth), it might appear that 'Prologue 18' of 'Space Aliens Hide My Drugs', containing references to an alleged 'Hidden Empire' secretly controlling MeatSpace Reality, was followed minutes later by A.Word.A.Day email defining the word 'cabal,' it can be easily surmised by those familiar with the operation of the Trei Transponder that this might well be a clever manipulation of time and space by those whose Virtual Clock is based on the same 2600 hour time-frame that allowed Graham (Cracker) (Captain) John (Parker) Buller (Shit) to appear to be auto-replying to the semi-mysterious ASCII Art slams against Tim C. May, even though a thorough examination of Canadian maps reveals that Edmonton, Alberta, does not really exist, and that GJB is actually a Newfie, desperately trying to hide the fact that his true MeatSpace persona resides deep within the bowels of Newfoundland's half-hour time zone, which is the laughingstock of the Great White Snort. Nonetheless, when the Atomic Clock strikes 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1998, (9:32 a.m. in Newfoundland), rest assured that it will set in motion a chain of events which will lift the leg of the Army of Dog, resulting in the cutting of a monumentous fart that will surprise and overwhelm the government robots programmed to believe that they are about to be pissed on, and are wearing raincoats that will provide little protection against the biological warfare attack that is first cousin to the product of the castor bean, and which decimates those who are unprepared for the true nature of the attack on their senses, while being 'good for the heart' of the madman launching the attack. Unlike the Grateful Dead who die smiling as the result of a 'pussy fart,' the Targets of TRIN (TM) will go to their graves wishing that they had been farsighted enough to have eyes to see and ears to hear the Voice Barfing In The Wilderness (TM) which warned them of the coming attack on the Virtual Physical Appendage that knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men... To: linguaphile(a)wordsmith.org Subject: A.Word.A.Day--cabal From: Wordsmith <wsmith(a)wordsmith.org> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:26:03 -0400 cabal (kuh-BAL) noun 1. A conspiratorial group of plotters or intriguers: "Espionage is quite precisely it-a cabal of powerful men, working secretly" (Frank Conroy). 2. A secret scheme or plot. cabal intr.verb To form a cabal; conspire. [French cabale, from Medieval Latin cabala.] WORD HISTORY: The history of cabal reveals how a word can be transferred from one sphere of activity to another while retaining only a tenuous connection with its past. Ultimately from Hebrew but transmitted to English probably by way of Medieval Latin and French, cabal is first recorded in English in 1616 in the sense "cabala." Cabala was the name for the Hebrew oral tradition transmitted by Moses and also the name for a Jewish religious philosophy based on an esoteric interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures. The notion "esoteric" is central to the development of this word in English, for cabal, probably following the sense development in French, came to mean "a tradition, special interpretation, or secret," "private intrigue" (first recorded in 1646-1647), and "a small body of intriguers" (first recorded in 1660). It is probably not coincidental that cabal is found with these latter meanings during the mid-17th century, that time of plots and counterplots by Royalists and Parliamentarians. The word gained a false etymology when it was noticed that the five most influential ministers of Charles II were named Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale. "What you are seeing happen though is rump groups of so-called wise men, former foreign policy advisers to both Democratic and Republican administrations are beginning to meet in little sort of cabals around town..." Congress Getting Its Hands in Foreign Policy, Morning Edition (NPR), 9 May 1994. This week's theme: words with interesting histories. ........................................................................... The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. -John Kenneth Galbraith Switching ISP or employer, and need to change the address on the list? Sign-off from the old address by sending a blank message with Subject line as "unsubscribe" to wsmith(a)wordsmith.org. Sign-up at the new address by sending message with Subject line as "subscribe <Your Name Here>".

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Registration confirmation - My Yahoo!
by my-yahoo＠yahoo-inc.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Your Yahoo ID is cpunks Your e-mail is cypherpunks(a)toad.com Please save this message for future reference. This confirmation message is sent to all users when they create a new account with Yahoo. When users register for a new account, we require them to provide an e-mail address. This confirmation notice is then sent to that address. If you DID NOT request this account, or would like to REMOVE it, use one of the following steps: -Click the hyperlink below -Cut and paste the following address into your browser: http://edit.my.yahoo.com/config/remove_user?k=IXtKZHdyeXx0OI4heUpleGF%2bYjQ… -Or, if you do not have a web browser please REPLY to this message, and include this ENTIRE EMAIL with REMOVE in the subject line. Welcome to My Yahoo!... You can return to My Yahoo! by going to http://my.yahoo.com/ You Yahoo! ID may be used to access any of the Yahoo! services that request a Yahoo! ID, such as: My Yahoo - http://my.yahoo.com Yahoo Mail - http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo Chat - http://chat.yahoo.com Yahoo Finance - http://quote.yahoo.com Yahoo Classifieds - http://classifieds.yahoo.com Yahoo Message Boards - http://messages.yahoo.com Yahoo Pager - http://pager.yahoo.com Yahoo Travel - http://travel.yahoo.com Yahoo Games - http://play.yahoo.com Netscape Guide by Yahoo - http://netscape.yahoo.com For information on Yahoo! ID's, please see below... ------------------ Yahoo! Accounts - Top Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Q. How is the Yahoo! ID stored? A. It is stored as a "cookie" on your local computer. This way, you only need to sign in once. If you upgrade your browser software, or change computers, you will probably be asked for your Yahoo! ID. Because we usually do not ask for a Yahoo! ID, many people forget their Yahoo! ID and/or password. Save this e-mail message to remember your Yahoo! ID. Q. What if I forget my password? A. Every Sign in page has a link at the bottom in case you have problems signing in. This link will lead you to form that you can use to have a new password assigned to you. You will need to remember your Yahoo! ID, and we will ask for your birthdate (as you entered it when you registered). Q. What if I forget my Yahoo! ID? A. Every Sign in page has a link at the bottom in case you have problems signing in. This link will lead you to a form that you can use to retrieve your Yahoo! ID. You will need to provide us with your email address, birthdate and zip code, as you entered it when you registered (so that we can verify you) Q. I'm sure I've typed the right Yahoo! ID/password, but I keep getting rejected. Why? A. Follow the instructions on the "Forgot your password" page. If you are positive your Yahoo! ID and password are correct, there is a small possibility that the system is temporarily down. You should try again after several hours. If you are unable to sign in for 24 hours, chances are your account information is not what you think it is. Q. How do I know if I am signed in? A. All personalized areas require a Yahoo! ID except Netscape Guide. You will be prompted for a Yahoo! ID and password whenever you try to access the different areas above. If you are not prompted, you are already signed in. Q. I use a shared computer, how do I sign out? A. If you are using "public" computers, you should always sign out to "clear" your Yahoo! ID and cookie from the computer's hard drive. The bottom of most pages contain a "Change User" or "Sign Out" button. If you do not see one, go to http://my.yahoo.com and use the "Sign-Out" link at the top of the page. Q. I've changed E-Mail providers, how do I update my information? A. Go to http://my.yahoo.com and click on the Account Information link at the top of the page. The edit page will let you update your E-Mail address, and other personal information and preferences. Q. How much is all this going to cost me? A. Absolutely nothing. All Yahoo information is paid for through advertising. Q. But I still have so many unanswered questions! A. Try the help links and images located in the specific customized area you are using. You can also send E-mail to us using the feedback link at the bottom of most pages. Thank you for using Yahoo! [192.233.133.248]

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